Cruz calls for support for law enforcement: “We must start by fully supporting our law enforcement community, from the heroic off-duty officer Jason Falconer, who neutralized the terrorist in the St. Cloud mall, saving many lives, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation officers in NY who have worked swiftly to identify and apprehend the likely mastermind of the weekend bombings”.
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McCaul added that he thought what Cruz said at the RNC “turned off a lot of people” because Cruz essentially broke the pledge that he and all the other Republican candidates promised to fulfill if they lost the primaries: support the party’s nominee. Then the two former rivals found common cause in Cruz’s highest priority now that he is back in the Senate: stopping the Obama administration from transferring oversight of the internet domain system to an global organization.
At a breakfast meeting hosted by Bloomberg Wednesday, Jeff Roe said that his former boss thinks about his position vis-a-vis Trump “every day” and said that he will likely “have an answer” to the endorsement question before Election Day. Urging all Republicans to put the country’s best interests above their own personal desires, McCaul made his case for supporting Trump.
Ingraham asked McCaul about the potentiality of running against Cruz in a 2018 Texas Senate primary.
The possibility of some sort of rapprochement looked more real Wednesday when Trump publicly backed Cruz’s effort to block the Obama administration’s plan to cede the United States’ current control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to an worldwide group of which the USA would only be part. Politico, the first to report the stunning news, cites multiple but unnamed sources “close to Ted Cruz”.
The frosty relationship between former Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Sen.
Whether all this will be enough to push Cruz toward an explicit endorsement of Trump is unclear.
In a statement, Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier tamped down on the notion that Trump’s involvement in the internet fight has something to do with Cruz’s stance toward the nominee. Roe has been viewed as more in favor of Cruz easing up on his refusal to back Trump. Left unsaid but nonetheless obvious is that there remains only one clear path to that goal – support Trump.
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In successive appearances on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Monday and U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, on Tuesday, took shots at Cruz for his failure to jump aboard the Trump train.
